For
false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and
wonders, to seduce,

if it were possible, even the elect. Mr
13:22

This
site will examine the traditions and
doctrines and practices of
modern Christianity.

It
will not confine itself to the traditonal or the charismatic,
but
wherever deviancy from scripture is promoted, whether by doctrine,
tradition, or practice, or common sense. While I do see that
the
traditional evangelical church is deeply rooted in errors brought on by
tradition, compromise, the world, and the flesh, I am most concerned
about the Third Wave movement among charismatics. While the
world
and Christians seem to be becoming more aware of the deadness of many
traditional evangelical churches and their attractiveness is waning,
the Third Wave is growing rapidly and appealing to many.
Therefore, I will first focuse my attention on that group.

Too
much of the critique of the Third Wave movement comes from those that
reject that all the gifts for today. Such a position fails to
get
at the heart of the deception and turns of many who have witnessed the
legitimacy of the gifts when instigated by the Holy Spirit and not the
flesh or wicked spirits. While I do not believe that many of
the
Third Wave manifestations exhibit a true Holy Spirit gift, I
do
believe that the Holy Spirit has all the gifts He always did and the
body of Christ is not a different body now, than what it was in the
first century.

Seek the
indwelling God witin you

Little gods

Worship

Emotion
verifies worship?

Worship as
warfare technique?

Singing is
worship?

Binding and
loosing

Territorial
Spirits

Soaking/meditation

Dwelling in
the glory

Emotions

Drunkeness
in the Spirit

Dream with
God

Bridal
theology

Much to
the
dismay of non-charismatics,
I am referencing a portion of a prophecy that was given in 1965
regarding the end time. I believe that it helps us understand
and
identify the errors of today. The prophecy will not be used
to
prove the errors, only scripture will, but the prophecy points us in
the right direction, I believe. The original had no text
emphasized

I warn you to search the Scriptures
diligently concerning these last days. For the things that are
written shall indeed be made manifest. There shall come deceivers
among My people in increasing numbers, who shall speak forth the
truth and shall gain the favour of the people. For the
people shall
examine the Scriptures and say, ‘What these men say is true’.
Then when they have gained the
hearts of the people, then and then
only shall they bring out their wrong doctrines. Therefore I say that
you should not give your
hearts to men, nor hold people’s persons
in admiration or adulation. For by these very persons Satan shall
gain entry into My people. Watch for seducers! Do you
think a seducer
will brandish a heresy and flaunt it before the people? He will speak
words of righteousness and truth and will appear as a minister of
light, declaring the Word. The people’s hearts shall be won. Then
when the hearts are won, they will bring out their doctrines and the
people shall be deceived. The people shall say ‘Did he not speak
thus and thus’? ‘And did we not examine it from the Word’?
‘Therefore he is a minister of righteousness. This that he has now
spoken we do not see in the Word but it must be right, for the other
things he spoke were true’.

Be not
deceived. For the
deceiver will first work to gain the hearts of many, and then shall
bring forth his insidious doctrines. You can not discern those who
are of Me and those who are not of Me when they start to preach.
But
seek Me constantly, and when these doctrines are brought out you
shall have a witness in your heart that these are not of Me. Fear
not, for I have warned you. It is possible that the very elect may be
deceived. But it is not possible if you walk in holiness and
uprightness before the Lord, for then your eyes shall be open and the
Lord will protect you. If you will constantly look unto the Lord you
will know when the doctrine changes, and will not be brought into it.
If your heart is right I will keep you, if you will look constantly
to Me I will uphold you.

The
teachings
and practices of the following will be first addressed.

Third Wave

The general teachings and
redefinition of
key
words of Christianity

Bill Johnson

I
chose Bill Johnson because I like listening to him, think he has much
truth to say, and it is very easy not to discern the poison within his
messages. It only takes a very small portion of poison to be
fatal though all of the food it infects is totally good. The
others ministers that he associates with usually have far more telling
errors, but it is Bill's teaching that bridges those errors and tends
to bring them into acceptability.

It
is his preoccupation with new revelations and power and emotions that
trips him up. Everything supernatural he seems to consider as
from the Holy Spirit.

Graham Cooke

Like
Bill Johnson, he is easy to listen to and brings forth much truth.
He reveals more errors than Bill does, but they have a very
similar message and ministry style. Unmasking these two will
provide keys that will expose the extreme errors of the Third Wave as
even more extreme that imagined.

Not
a very big influence, but a brother was very excited about him and was
telling everyone to heed him and I checked him out. He is
mainly
an influence on the non charismatic crowd, and most specifically on
the followers of Bill Gothard. His focus is marriage ministry
and
he says some of the most dangerous and anti bilblical statements
regarding marriage and women and wives I have ever heard. So,
I
am including that on this site.